Re: -a task,always audits everything
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 06:14:26 Matthew Booth wrote:
I added the following to audit.rules in RHEL4 U4 x86_64:
-a task,always
I expected this to have a similar effect to auditing the fork, vfork and
clone system calls.
Task auditing and syscall auditing are a little different. Task filters would
most likely be used a field (-F) option. What the above is doing is marking
each task auditable as its created.
However, it seems to either audit everything itself,
As given, I think so. What happens is that with no fields, the
audit_filter_rules() function in the kernel avoids the switch case and winds
up in another branch which is for situations like:
auditctl -a always,exit -s open
In that case, you would want to audit any call to open. So, what happens is
each task is marked auditable as its created since there are no field
qualifiers to discriminate with.
or cause all the filtering to be removed from my other audit rules
(which
audit pretty much everything).
Audit is a first match wins system.
Is this expected behaviour, or a bug?
I think this is expected.
-Steve